A Look At The Links

The Soda Springs and Grace golf teams hit the road and the course last Wednesday when they traveled to Aberdeen.  It was an idyllic day for golf on the course as the sun was shining and the temperature skyrocketed to give us our warmest day of the year thus far.  The sun wasn’t the only thing shining that day as several of our local golfers started their seasons with some excellent performances.

In the girls competition of the four schools in attendance the Lady Cardinals were the only one to put together a full team.  The five varsity girls put up a team score of 389.  Just because they were the only full team does not mean they didn’t also have some terrific individual performances as well.  Jaden Parker and Tara Vedder led the way for the Cardinals with Parker shooting an 85 and Vedder shooting an 89 putting them as the second and third individual placers on the day.  The top individual spot went to a Lady Grizzly.  The Lady Grizzlies are low on numbers this season and only had four girls at the meet with two girls competing in each of the varsity and junior varsity competitions.  Grace’s two varsity golfers were Karlie Christensen and Shaston Lloyd.  It was  Christensen that took the top spot individually with a score of 83 while Lloyd would come in fourth with a 97.  The girl golfers in the county look strong right out of the gate as they claimed the six best scores at the meet.  Look for the Grizzlies and Cardinals to battle it out all season long as they look to be the best female golfers in the district at the moment.  Remember that golf is one of the sports that 1A through 3A all compete together so these girls will be battling for district and state titles later on in the season. 

On the boys side of things Soda Springs showed some good team consistency.  The Cardinal’s top five were only separated by nine strokes. Kayden Peterson led the way for the Cardinals with a score of 90 followed closely by Brycen Peterson and Preston Ozburn who shot 92 and 93 respectively.  The Cardinals as a team came in in third place with a team score of 372.  Like their girls team the Grizzly men are down in numbers this year with just four boy golfers on the roster.  Unlike the Lady Grizzlies all four boys did golf in the varsity competition and represented very well for Grace.  All four boys for Grace placed in the top seven golfers with Jamie Smith placing first overall shooting a 74.  Tate Williams placed third overall with his score of 81.  As a whole the four Grizzly men that also included Derek Hill and Keathan Edwards took the top spot as a team with a score of 330.  With several good boy golfers in the district both the Grizzlies and the Cardinals will have to stay sharp if they want to see success in the post season.

In conclusion the county is loaded with some great golf talent this year that should make for some great drama on the links.  If you get a chance, get out and support all of our local golfers this season.

Boys Team Results       Girls Team Results

Grace 330                    Soda Springs 389

Westside 361                 Grace N/A

Soda Springs 372           Westside N/A

Aberdeen 428                 Aberdeen N/A

Grace Boys                     Grace Girls

Jamie Smith 74              Karlie Christensen 83 

Tate Williams 81              Shaston Lloyd 97            

Keathen Edwards 85       Evie Olenslauger 148 JV

Derek Hill 90                     Kirynn Crosby 152 JV

Soda Boys                         Soda Girls

Kayden Peterson 90        Jayden Parker 85

 Brycen Peterson 92         Tara Vedder 89

Preston Ozburn 93          Kale Hopkins 107

Chase Jacobson 97           Jocee Tingey 108

Eli Byrum 99                       Presley Camp 128 

Mylez Ozburn 64 JV          Taylee Tingey 51 JV

Kade Maughan 118 JV         Tayla Petterborg 70JV

Jasta Stoor 96  JV               Addelyn Smith 128JV